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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:58:44
Message-Id: 43984840.7000102@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] firefox/java_vm by Ernie Schroder
1 Ernie Schroder wrote:
2
3 >Certain pages opened in Firefox start java_vm processes that will not allow
4 >mplayer to work until I do a killall java_vm. When I do that, any and all
5 >firefox windows will close as well. Closing all instances of firefox also
6 >kills all java_vm processes. At times I might have 15 or 20 instances of the
7 >java_vm. Does anyone have a fix? this has persisted through several java and
8 >firfox updates.
9 >
10 >which java
11 >/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/bin/java
12 >
13 >www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin
14 > Latest version available: 1.0.7
15 > Latest version installed: 1.0.7
16 >
17 >
18 I have noticed this with Mozilla too. If I go to weather.com and get
19 the radar thing, java never closes until I close Mozilla. It also seems
20 to open a new one each time I reload a new radar image too.
21
22 This may be a bigger bug than we thought. That coming from someone that
23 is not a programmer though. ;)
24
25 Dale
26 :-)
27
28 --
29 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
30
31 I have four rigs:
32
33 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
34 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
35 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
36 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
37
38 All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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